Copy Paranoia Syndrome

That moment of pure dread when QA starts using your feature in ways you specifically didn't account for in your test cases. You built it for users who follow logical paths, but QA's sole mission is chaos. They'll click buttons 17 times in succession, enter emoji in numeric fields, and somehow manage to crash the entire application by typing their name backward. The tears are justified—you knew this would happen, yet hoped against hope they wouldn't find that one edge case you silently labeled as "nobody would ever do this anyway."

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The age-old battle between while loops and do-while loops, perfectly illustrated by Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote! The Road Runner checks conditions before running (while loop), safely avoiding the cliff edge. Meanwhile, poor Coyote executes first and checks conditions later (do-while loop), guaranteeing at least one painful fall into the canyon. This is basically every programmer's first encounter with loop selection coming back to haunt them in production. Some bugs you just can't patch mid-air!

The pie chart that never lies! Supposedly showing the "Benefits of being a developer" with money, girls, and fame as categories, but the chart itself is just a perfect visualization of our collective delusion. The colors are there, the sections exist, but notice how there's no actual data or percentages? That's because they're all zero. The real benefits are carpal tunnel, caffeine dependency, and explaining to relatives that no, you can't fix their printer. But hey, at least we get to argue about tabs vs spaces!

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